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bigmac_nopickles

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Registered: 2019-11-16

Posts: 25

[SOLVED] NVIDIA driver won't load

I've been trying to get my nvidia drivers to work for a while now, and i have no idea what's wrong.

I have a gtx 750 ti graphics card, so following the instructions on the wiki, i installed the

nvidia

package:

# sudo pacman -S nvidia

I rebooted, and all of a sudden my computer has a tiny resolution, visible scan lines, and is basically unusable. I noticed that neofetch is telling me that nouveau is still my gpu driver. Shouldn't installing the nvidia backage blacklist nouveau?

# sudo modprobe nvidia

modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/5.9.6-arch1-1

This has been happening a lot, and after trying a bunch of different threads, one recommended I downgrade my kernel. I just downgraded to the 5.9.6 kernel but it made no difference (i didn't expect it to). I'm not really sure what to do here.

I've tried installing the

nvidia-lts

package aswell just in case, even though i'm quite sure i don't need it. I tried running

nvidia-xconfig

but after rebooting with that

startx

wouldn't load. Then i just removed the config it created. When I do

nvidia-settings

it says:

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded


ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

So I guess, I've installed the package, but its not loading making my graphics all messed up. What confuses me even more is that when i remove the nvidia package, it still uses nouveau as the gpu driver but it works perfectly fine.

Last edited by bigmac_nopickles (2021-01-31 21:15:02)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,376

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA driver won't load

You are either doing partial upgrades or your boot loader config is broken and boots an older kernel than what's installed.

You are booting the 5.9.6 kernel while the nvidia package should be installed and setup for the 5.10.11 kernel.

What's your

pacman -Q linux
pacman -Qs nvidia

Last edited by V1del (2021-01-31 16:53:48)

bigmac_nopickles

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Registered: 2019-11-16

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA driver won't load

# pacman -Q linux

linux 5.9.6.arch1-1

# pacman -Qs nvidia

local/egl-wayland 1.1.6-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/libvdpau 1.4-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 460.39-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia 460.39-2
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-lts 1:460.39-4
    NVIDIA drivers for linux-lts
local/nvidia-settings 460.39-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 460.39-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia 455.45.01-1
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 63,363

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA driver won't load

You are […] doing partial upgrades

And the solution is to don't.
The nvidia kernel module matches the 5.10.11 kernel, but your installation is 5.9.6, they're not compatible and the nvidia module is also installed into the "wrong" (5.10.11) module path.

=> Run a full system upgrade.
The post an update w/ - in case - new error messages.

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bigmac_nopickles

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Registered: 2019-11-16

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA driver won't load

Thank you, full system upgrade and reboot worked perfectly